£250,000 fraud

A MAN is due to be sentenced after admitting conspiracy to defraud more than £250,000 in Oldham.

Mohammed Tahir Ashraf (43), of Cheadle Hulme, tricked staff at the Oldham branch of NatWest bank out of the money after posing as a business man and fraudulently accessing someone’s bank account.

He admitted two offences committed in 2007, and was remanded in custody by Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday. He will be sentenced on May 27.